By The Huffington Post News Editors
A woman in India is being investigated for murder after her alleged rapist died in a house fire, Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday.
The unnamed woman, a widow, claims she was asleep when the alleged assailant, Bhola Thakur, entered her house early Tuesday morning and raped her. A police officer told the Hindustan Times that the man was “so drunk he [fell] asleep in her house after committing the crime.”
The Indian Express reports that the woman contemplated committing suicide out of shame, but changed her mind and instead poured kerosene on her slumbering attacker before fleeing the house.
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